COMMERCE 1BA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Role Conflict, Social Loafing, Collectivism
25 May 2016
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Established by the organization to achieve organizational goals. Basic workgroup: 1 manager + stable group of employees. Ore social and form naturally in response to common interests of organizational members. Applies typically to new groups that have never met before. Applies mainly to groups with a specific deadline. Phase 1 first meeting assumptions, approaches developed, little progress. Midpoint determines group performance, adoption of decisions and approaches. Phase 2 midpoint decisions played out, resist deadline changes. **first & mid meetings crucial for high performance. Characteristics of the stable social organization of a group/team. Correlated with group performance contingent on type of task. Additive group performance depends on individual level, positively related with group size. Disjunctive performance depends on the best group member"s performance, positively related with group size. Conjunctive performance depends on worst member, negatively related with group size. Collective expectations that members of social units have regarding behaviour of each other.
